Panchang in Olean, New York, United States Fri 20 Sep 2024

The Sankashti fast is broken at moonrise. Chaturthi runs from 11:45 on Fri 20 Sep to 08:44 on Sat 21 Sep, so it holds moonrise only on Fri 20 Sep, at 20:32. No text giving Sankashti Chaturthi’s time was found; moonrise is Tithika’s convention.

Sankashti Chaturthi: every date in Olean

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 204°–216° is the 18th, Krishna Tritiya. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:59 here. Dwitiya ended at 15:10 Thu, before it. Tritiya ends at 11:45, when the lead reaches 216°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 17 Sep, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

The night of Thu 19 Sep ran from sunset 19:15 Thu to sunrise 06:59, 11 h 44 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 46 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:59 to 19:13, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 31 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 19:13 to 07:00 Sat, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 28 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Ashwini spans 0°00′–13°20′; the Moon entered its pada 3 at 6°40′. It leaves at 17:12, for Bharani.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 153.8° + 7° = 160.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 160°00′–173°20′ is the 13th, Vyaghata. It ends at 02:06 Sat, then Harshana.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Tritiya is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 01:25, when the lead reached 210°; Vishti runs until 11:45.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:59 to 07:00 Sat, so the hours after midnight still belong to Shukrawara.

An amanta month runs from new moon to new moon and takes its name from the rashi the Sun is in at the new moon that begins it: Simha gives Bhadrapada. The Sun enters Kanya on 16 Sep, inside the month. The next new moon, 2 Oct, finds it in Kanya and begins Ashwina.

A purnimanta month runs from full moon to full moon, so its waning half comes first. It shares its name with the amanta month that its second half falls in: the new moon of 2 Oct, with the Sun in Kanya, begins Ashwina. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Ashwina here, and Bhadrapada in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 8 Apr 2024, 14:20 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 158.6° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.